A.N.: FINALLY!! AHHH This freaking vacation is over!! I had such a hard time finishing this chapter GOD! Okay in other news!
A good friend of mine Meian-Seimei made an awsome cover page line art for the Academy and i'm sooo happy with it! you'll find it in the fallowing link
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The colored version will be coming out soon (When i finish coloring it lol)
Chapter Thirty-three: Darker Plans That Finally Make an Antagonist for This Story
Pein looked up at Orochimaru with steely eyes. Orochimaru had formally started the Akatsuki temple with Pein but the two never really saw eye to eye so the older man had left the Akatsuki to Pein and started up a new temple, The Sound. Pein knew that Orochimaru was a competitive man but he never thought that he'd become enemies with him.
"I'm telling you I have no choice on what students enter my temple," Pein said in his usually business tone but one could tell that his coolness was breaking under Orochimaru's argument. "And neither can you."
"I know the girl has a sibling Pein," Orochimaru said with a cool smile "he probably holds the same neutral charka as the girl. I will not allow you to hold them both under your care. And the Towers are too commercial to ever hold a child with such power."
"The Towers are just as powerful as any other class," Pein said narrowing his ringed gaze "at lest they don't make there students into monstrosities."
"I only give the Curse Mark to those you seek the power," Orochimaru sneered "now listen very carefully I want you to make it secure that I get the boy next year or I'll just mention to Tsunade about your little romps with one of your students." Pein's eyes widened and contrasted again. "Oh yes I know about…what her name? Oh right Konan."
Pein glared up at Orochimaru who smiled darkly. The silence was so thick it was hard to breathe as the two men stared back at each other one in udder rage the other in a cocky boastfulness.
"Fine," Pein growled "If the boy is coming to my temple next year I'll transfer him to Sound." The leader of the Akatsuki closed his eyes for a moment before opening them again to see that Orochimaru had gone probably to go and black mail the other heads of classes. Pein gave a long sigh "Bastard."
Pein rarely swore but when he did you knew something was going to be destroyed. So in a rare fit of rage Pein threw the glass paper weight of a tiger from his desk and across the room where it shattered on impact of the wall.
And with that tiger shattered the bond between me and my brother also broke, though neither of us knew it yet.
"Hmm," I mused looking over some black tang tops, all of my uniform tops where faded and torn so Pein had ordered me before we left to buy myself some new ones. I didn't mind since all the extra tops in the cupboard at the end of the hall way where all too big on my or looked worst off then mine. I picked out seven which would be more then enough and I also got a few novels for myself.
I'd checked the Akatsuki library a million times but none of the books at school where non-fiction all of them where either Biographies on great ninja or common jutsu learn how do books.
Content I went to the video game section of Walmart where I found a black haired Deidara arguing with the teller because apparently they didn't take the foreign money that Deidara was trying to use to buy an X-Box 360. I watched Deidara for a long moment before dragging him to the closet ATM where I put in the Academy credit card and it transferred Deidara's Korean cash into American dollars. Apparently he didn't have the money for an X-Box 360 in the first place so I back handed him.
"You're a moron," I said dully as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Aw you know you love me hmm," he said with an adorable smile.
"You're lucky you're cute," I grumbled as we met up with my Mom who was with Kenny buying him jeans. "Mom do you know where Loren and Sasori went off to," I asked.
"I have no idea," she replied only half paying attention to me.
"Probably making out in the bathroom," Deidara murmured "maybe we should join them yeah?"
My mom's head snapped up be we where both already gone. Thank God for a soundless escape.
I snapped open my phone when we where a safe distance away from my mom's preying eyes.
Where R U? I text into the phone and pressed the send button and put the phone back in my pocket. A few moments later my phone buzzed in my pocket giving me a slight jolt.
Bathroom
I looked at Deidara with a dull glare.
Y?
Cuz I had 2 pee! Duh!
I laughed at my own foolishness for even thinking for a second that Deidara might have been right. And who makes out at a Walmart bathroom? One that's gross and two there's a perfectly good car in the parking lot that that stuff could be done in. I shook my head. I really need to get my head out of the gutter!
"You have all the stuff you want guys?" I asked as we dragged our merchandise. Everyone nodded and or grunted positively. I had black tang tops like I'd said before, Deidara didn't have money for much but he got a bag of chocolate bars which I was so stealing later. Loren had books and some new star ear rings because her old ones had gotten dented in training. Sasori had some games for his computer. "Okay good because I don't know about you guys but I'm ready for bed!"
"Bed" Loren blinked "It's only like four thirty!"
"So?" I said "I want to get to the Academy as soon as possible I miss everyone already."
"You just miss Itachi," Loren teased shoving my shoulder.
I stayed quiet as we got to the cashier and my mom helped unload our stuff on the moving register board. I didn't reply because it was true that I missed Itachi and I was worried about his eyes. Those eyes are his only means of any sort of ninja work for him not only seeing no that's only the half of it. The Sharingan is the Uchiha bread and butter and without them he'd never be able to be a ninja. Going blind for Itachi would be just as bad as if Deidara got his arms chopped off.
Though I had wanted to go straight to bed mom had made me eat dinner and spend some time watching a Block Buster movie. Papa had gotten Sweeny Todd so my interest had been sparked and I had no other choice but the watch the awesome musical/murder movie that had come from the mind of my favored director Tim Burton.
The movie finished at around ten and everyone decided to head to the sack though me and my brother where still geeking out about how awesome the gory and bloodiest parts of the movie had been. I have to say Pirelli's throat slash had been the best of all the kills but my brother insisted that the Judge's murder had been the best. Deidara just thought we where both crazy.
Anyway so that was that and that was the end of my vacation. No romantic ending or sudden ninja battle in the hall way just us hitting the beds and knocking out. I was so happy to be going back to the Academy after this mundane week I mean sure I was happy to see my family but I could barely remember who they even where which saddened me deeply because I wanted to know how to love my parents and Kenny and somehow I'd forgotten.
Once I had all four dragons unlocked I'd get my memories back! I'd fight my own mind for them but I'd get those precious memories back. As I closed my eyes I made this simple promise to myself a promise that may be easier said then done more so when your own enemy is in your mind.
We where all awoken very early in the morning probably four or something. My father was already dressed and he practically rolled Deidara onto the floor to get him up. The clay ninja responded by drooling on the pillow and I laughed hoarsely watching my father attempt to do the impossible.
"Let me do it Pa," I said once I'd cleared my throat. My father grumbled something as I got to Deidara's bed side. I looked down at Deidara and sighed taking a fistful of black hair from his head and pulling. Deidara's reaction to this was less then glamorous or quiet but at lest he was awake.
"Oh stop being such a baby," I said as I dragged my luggage down the stairs. If I wasn't a student at the Academy I'd probably have fallen down the narrow stair case and the luggage would have landed on my thin body and snap me in half.
Behind me Deidara was whimpering still angry that I'd pulled his hair out. I didn't pay any attention to what he was saying it was way too early in the morning to bother trying to process words in my brain. So I was only able to acknowledge his negative grumbling.
Somewhere in my fogged thinking process I heard my mother's voice say 'coffee' she said it in Spanish but it was still coffee none the less. I abandoned my luggage in the middle of the living room and sprinted to the kitchen. Of course I found Sasori talking with my mother. He'd probably been up before my parents. I wasn't even sure if he ever slept I bet you he doesn't!
I ignored my revelation and attacked the cup of coffee sitting pleasantly on the counter top. I took a long drink of it. It was hot and burned my throat but I didn't care because I knew up until summer started again I probably would never have coffee again. I sighed setting the cup down back to its previous spot.
"Morning," my mother said with a wry smile.
"Hi," I said closing my eyes and leaning on her shoulder. I knew she'd like that.
The drive to the Town Hall was slow because of the blizzard currently going on. It was a complete white out and the snow piled quickly making the road slick and difficult to move through. Thankfully our home is only a few blocks away from the desired destination. When the car stopped we where very lucky because I could see the bus coming in from the corner and rolling its way through the piled high snow, Loren was already outside waiting since Miss Lucky lived right across the street from the Town Hall.
I leaned over and kissed my dad on the cheek. "See you in the summer don't miss me to much," I said quickly and he said his good byes in return. Deidara and Sasori where already out of the car and pulling our luggage from the trunk. I could hear Loren call out to them and me that the bus was coming.
I smiled again at my father and got out of the car. My foot sunk into the snow nearly half way up my calf. I was happy I was wearing my sneakers rather then the toeless ninja shoes.
I walked over to where the others waited as the bus creped down the street. It seemed like it was moving at a snail pace but I knew better the bus was probably moving so fast that it was picking up kids in China while still being right on Elm Street. I suddenly wondered if Santa Clause was a ninja.
This thought didn't invade my mind for long because the bus was in front of us and Loren was pulling me along. The boys put all of our stuff in the compartment at the side of the bus that holds the luggage. Loren and me went on into the bus and the Justus that hid our ninja look faded. Deidara and Sasori fallowed behind Deidara's black hair become gold as he came back onto the bus and his coal colored eyes got back there rim of cerulean. Sasori visibly hardened and his eyes lost there human light of life oddly it was the first time I could actually tell that Sasori was no longer human, I guess it was because I'd seen him alive and real the past week.
We ignored Orochimaru's glares and got to the back of the bus which was still rather empty. There where only a few other kids on the bus and I didn't know any of them.
I sat down and looked out the window to see my dad in the car still parked at the side of the road. He didn't see me but he was looking at the bus. I waved he caught my eye for a second but we where already gone and all that you could see where the old Japanese houses flying by.